she's pretty bitter about iraq. and then of course, there's senator john mccain, bitter about losing to president obama and advocating a foreign policy so hawkish that we would be in a perpetual state of war, let's see, well, five fronts. not four, but five, i think. let's turn to political analyst, msnbc political analyst richard wolf with us tonight, and van jones, president of rebuild the dream and author of the book by the same name "rebuild the dream." great to have you with us tonight. richard, you first, if the convention waw a reflection of mitt romney, what did it tell us last night? what did we learn? >> well, it tells us they have a strange world view. the romney campaign, romney himself, has run a very tactical affair here, and we do focus on shows like this on punching, the back and forth, the lies and distortions, but if you listen to thototality, what you heard was an image of america that many people would find unreal. never mind about the lies and the truth of it, for a start, they don't want to tal